The Washington Post interviews UB expert on Obama’s Syria policy

An article in The Washington Post about the strategy
behind President Obama changeable Syria policy quotes Philip Arena,
assistant professor of political science, who suggests that
Obama’s indecisiveness may actually help the U.S. get what it
wants. “The most relevant obstacle to negotiation, up until
very recently, might well have been a belief on behalf of [Russian
President Vladimir] Putin and Assad that the U.S. couldn’t be
appeased,” he said. Arena’s comments originally
appeared on the political science blog, The Duck of
Minerva.